As many of you know, I'm currently reading Gary Vaynerchuk's newest book, Crushing It! (actually I just finished the book today) and he often talks about "landgrab opportunities".
A landgrab opportunity refers to the early stages of a platform's existence. The time when the masses haven't started paying much attention to a platform. A perfect example would be snapchat in 2015 or Instagram several years ago, or Twitter when Ashton Kutcher became the first user to hit 1 million followers.
Anyways, I read the following snippet this morning and instantly thought of Steem and Steemit. In my opinion, Steem is the ultimate landgrab - the biggest opportunity to garner attention and influence (a.k.a. followers and Steem tokens) that I've ever seen.
“Don’t be the 2017 first-time homebuyer in Malibu; be goddamn Thomas Jefferson buying about eight hundred thousand square miles of Louisiana Territory for three cents an acre in 1803 dollars.” - Gary Vaynerchuk, "Crushing It!"
A lot of my friends and family have expressed a lot of interest in Steem after hearing about it from me. They also look at the price and ask if it's too high to get in (the price hovering around $3.5-$4). I always have the same answer - it may seem like a high price relative to the now, but what are you going to think when Steem hits $10 or $20 or $30 or $100...
I really think Steem has the potential to hit these prices and not just because I'm an optimist. I think steem has this potential because I can see the future that Steem can build. A future of unlimited possiblities with SMTs, communities, freedom of speech and actions, and much much more. For the uninitiated, I simply refer to Steem as Ethereum if it were on the most powerful social steroids in the world.
Before you get angry at the comparison, I know that there are a lot of obvious differences between Steem and Ethereum, but in my opinion, Steem is going to beat out Ethereum as an ecosystem to distribute tokens and create communities and individual governances. It's just a matter of time for Steem to hit the mainstream and be recognized for it's true potential. Just look around at your fellow Steemians who are building communities all over the world and dedicating themselves to promoting this platform and all its potential benefits for third-world countries.
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What's your favorite part about Steem? Community? Opportunities? Let me know in the comments below!
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